Europe

Two Glasgow organizations have launched a partnership which will see joint working for older adults from all faiths and backgrounds. Glasgow’s Golden Generation (GGG) has been supporting older adults in the city since 1948 and Scottish Ahlul-Bayt Society (SABS) promotes interfaith working…

The First International Academic Conference on Sustainable Development, held by the United Nations during the past few days at the Utah Valley University in the United States, recorded the active attendance of a number of Shia clerics, and aims to…

The Swedish magazine Skogseko’s front cover of its new number sparked widespread criticism on social networking sites within Sweden. The magazine put on its cover the image of the researcher, “Mastarin Ara”, a veiled Muslim woman from Bangladesh, who was…

Pope Francis urged the world on Sunday to learn from history at a time when the danger of nuclear war over the conflict in Ukraine is emerging, and called for choosing the path of peace. “We cannot forget the danger…

Pope Francis on Sunday October 9th made an impassioned defense of migrants, calling their exclusion “scandalous, disgusting and sinful,” putting him on a collision course with Italy’s upcoming right-wing government. “The exclusion of migrants is scandalous. Indeed, the exclusion of…

The new report on immigration prepared by ‘Caritas’ Organization  and ‘Migrantes’ Foundation of the Italian Episcopal Conference, and presented in Rome on Friday October 7th, said that “taking into account the religious affiliation of the minors, it is estimated that…

Unidentified persons wrote anti-Muslim phrases and insults on the wall of a mosque belonging to the Turkish Islamic Union for Religious Affairs in Offenbach, Hessen state, central Germany, according to media outlets.  A statement issued by the city’s police, on…

Muslims living in European countries have long been aware of the Islamophobic attitudes that are espoused by not only majority ethnic groups, but also by their respective governments. Indeed, in countries such as the UK, anti-Muslim workplace behaviors have been…

An Islamic cemetery from the Islamic era has been discovered in Granada, Spain. At least 600 tombs from three different eras (from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries) were discovered during work to develop a car parking lot in the…

French far-right politician Marine Le Pen has called on Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin to close more mosques in the country, saying that closing 24 mosques over the past two years is not enough. Le Pen said, in an interview on…